Improvement in metallic rope-clamps



UNITED STATES PATENT CFFICE.

AIME MEHU, OF PARIS, FRANCE.

IMPROVEMENT IN METALLIC ROPE-CLAMPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 141,579, dated August5, 1873; application filed March 15, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AIME MEHU, blacksmith, of Paris, France, haveinvented a System of Metallic Lashing, of which the following is aspecification:

My invention consists of a clamp in two parts, constructed so as to bereadily connected or separated, and adapted to receive the parallel andcontiguous portions of a loop of rope or cordage to which the clamp isapplied, as a substitute for the usual binding cord or lashing.

Figuresl and2 represent the end of a shroud or stay, e, looped round ametallic eye, D, and laid upon and secured to the main portion by theclamps or metallic lashin gs B, of which there may be any suitablenumber, according to the length of the overlapping end. Each clampconsists of two sections, A A, each of which is adapted by internalcorrugations to receive the strands of the rope, the sections beingdetachably connected in any suitable manner.

One mode of constructing the clamp is shown in Fig. 3, where eachsection is of cast metal, with slotted projections a a, which are inline when the sections are together, so that keys 0 0 may be passedthrough the slots. The keys have recesses near the ends to receive thebent ends of wires 12, which retain the keys in their places, Figs. 1,2, and 4..

The clamps may be made of malleable metal, in which case the arms a to,Figs. 5 and 6, instead of being slotted are bent, as shown, the keysbeing passed through the bent ends. When made of iron or otheroxidizable metal the clamps are galvanized or tinned.

It will be apparent that the metallic lashin gs may be of various forms,and the sections may be connected in other modes than those shown anddescribed without departing from E. KIRNAND, OHERUT.

